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• Video: TED & TEDx Explained in 70 Seconds

  This short, sweet explainer from BlinkTower tells you just what you need to know about TED and TEDx — and might inspire you to start your own event!... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• And the AIPG Fiasco Continues

  

  The 5300-odd rankers in the AIPG were breathing a sigh of relief when the notification for counseling for Post Graduation seats was declared, along with dates... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• World TB Day: Make Your Own Poster, SHow Your Support

  

  Well, its not too fab considering I did not put too much thought into which floating head of mine should go into the image, but then again, more than the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• TB Or Not TB: World TB Day–No More TB

  

  Today is the World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Robert Koch made the stunning announcement that he had been able to identify the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Kashi Katha: Row Row Row Your Boat…

  

  I went on a trip to Benares to take an exam and it turned out to be a journey of introspection and self-criticism for me. I was going through a really tough... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Twitter Acquires Posterous: The End of A Good Thing?

  

  As someone who uses email a lot, Posterous was the best way for me to get an online, no fuss site up and running. Writing and keeping up with comments on... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Game, Set… MATCH!

  A number of my friends applied for the USMLE this year and it seems that with every passing year more and more people from my neck of the woods are trying to... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Another AIPG Controversy

  Rumors and hearsay have been a dime a dozen since the bombshell of an AIPG dropped on us and since the results were postponed, there seems to have been an... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• MAHE: A Fantastic Test Experience of an Unfair Evaluation System

  

  I took the Manipal MD/MS PG Entrance examination today (aka MAHE) and as it was the first ever online test I was going to sit for, I was naturally a little... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Landmark Order: JIPMER Asked to Reveal Test Paper and Keys

  

  One of the biggest bones that the Indian post graduate entrance examinees had to pick with the system was the (?apparent) lack of transparency in the examinatio... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• TEDx Comes to Kolkata

  

  As a part of a bigger TEDx webcast from Berlin, a TEDx event is being organized in Kolkata, at Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The program is being supported by th... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Remembering Tinsley Harrison, the Oslerphile Physician

  

  The past few weeks have been very demanding on me and I have not had the best of times, either on the personal or on the professional front. So, today, I took... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Rajasthan PG Entrance Fiasco

  I was thinking of writing about the postponement of the All India Post Graduate Entrance Exam in order to make time for an online counseling system to be put... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The (Alleged) Rajasthan PG Entrance Fiasco

  I was thinking of writing about the postponement of the All India Post Graduate Entrance Exam in order to make time for an online counseling system to be put... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Valentine’s Day Kills!

  

  I wish all my readers a very Happy Valentine’s Day and though I am spending it in a rather sad and loser-like fashion, I hope y’all make a day out of it! I... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Blog-Gone Crazy!

  

  Another blog has been silenced thanks to bureaucratic interference! I first came to know of it from Those Emergency Blues and then read the “main” obituary on... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Save the Junior Doctors: Primum Non Nocere

  

  It seems like an age old saga of woe and misery. Once again the media and mob seem to have ransacked and attacked on duty junior doctors in Bankura Sammilani... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Thoughts on World Cancer Day: Part II–Spreading the Word

  

  Although I missed writing about this particular day of great public health interest on the day it actually took place, it was good to see the Indian corporates... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Thoughts on World Cancer Day: Part I–Unraveling Yuvraj Singh’s Cancer

  

  Sorry for missing the train on this one. February 4th is the World Cancer Day and is one of the public health days that could do with some more propaganda in th... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• MediQuiz Gets Its OWN Site!

  As any reader of this blog will know by now I am a MediQuizzing enthusiast (though that does not quite describe the reasons for the debacle last week at the... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE